2020 and the Black Lives Movement wouldn’t have happened if it wasn’t for hip-hop. Fight the Power: How Hip-Hop Changed the World I: The Foundation, BBC 2023
‘Hip-hop is part of a movement of black music that started in slavery.’ ibid.
‘Hip-hop is like the bastard child of disco.’ ibid.
‘DJs are initially like band leaders.’ ibid.
‘Some years later Lovebug Starski and Chief Rocker Busy Bee started calling it Busy Bee.’ ibid.
Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five: The Message. ibid.
Run DMC: Hard Times 1983. Fight the Power: How Hip-Hop Changed the World II: Under Seige
Public Enemy: Night of the Living Baseheads 1988. ibid.
Public Enemy: Fight the Power 1989. ibid.
Ice T: 6 n the Morning 1987. ibid.
‘Rap music was also becoming a language that brought communality across the world.’ Fight the Power: How Hip-Hop Changed the World III: Culture Wars
‘But the misogyny just got huge.’ ibid.
‘A whole new sound was coming out of the west coast: it would change hip-hop for ever.’ ibid.
‘Tupac made the hardest records ever to do that people were afraid to touch.’
Snoop Dogg: Gin and Juice
‘The hearings didn’t amount to much. Hip-hop didn’t lose its voice.’
All through the ’90s and then to the millennium hip-hop was taking over America. Fight the Power: How Hip-Hop Changed the World IV: Still Fighting
A lot of us were asking, What price have we paid to get here? ibid.